Katy Perry
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On Music: Katy Perry — Voice of No Angel
Comment by Jude Rogers, Guardian, The, August 2008
IT'S BEEN quite a week for sex, music and me. Take last weekend. There I was at the Big Chill festival, hot-browed and clammy-palmed, watching ...
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Observer Music Monthly, August 2008
Katy Perry's 'I Kissed a Girl' is a runaway hit in the States – and she's now repeating that success over here. Sheryl Garratt caught ...
Katy Perry: Water Rats, London **
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, September 2008
KATY PERRY has found the best way to ensure her debut UK gig is a sellout. Although she has had the No. 1 single for ...
Katy Perry: One Of The Boys ** (Capitol)
Review by Dorian Lynskey, Guardian, The, September 2008
IS THERE NOTHING lipstick lesbianism can't do for a 23-year-old former gospel singer? ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, August 2010
What Katy did next — world domination! ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, August 2010
WITH HER LARGER-THAN-LIFE presence, and naughtier than sin songs, Katy Perry's position as the candy-craving gal from the American dream factory appears unassailable. ...
Katy Perry: Hammersmith Apollo, London ****
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, March 2011
KATY PERRY is strutting across the stage, a giant spray of feathers fanning out from her tiny backside, and she's singing, "I wanna see your ...
Katy Perry: Max-Schmeling-Halle, Berlin ****
Review and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, May 2011
Pop's newest extravaganza. Includes a vision of "whipped cream tits"… ...
Review by Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, October 2013
KATY PERRY, the frivolous, hard-partying pop starlet, has an unfortunate Achilles heel – she wants to be taken seriously. ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Wondering Sound, October 2013
TO MY EARS AND HEART, there is nothing more rousing than a well-crafted single, whatever its source. And whenever Katy Perry's Queen-of-the-Jungle anthem 'Roar' swings ...
Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry: New Skin
Comment by Dorian Lynskey, GQ, January 2014
Reinvention can make or break our pop princesses ...
Live Review by Dorian Lynskey, Guardian, The, June 2014
IT'S UNFORTUNATE for Katy Perry that her Prismatic tour is rolling into town just three weeks after Miley Cyrus's Bangerz. ...
Book Excerpt by Barney Hoskyns, 'Capitol 75' (Taschen), 2016
NOTE: Herewith the full "director's cut" version of the historical essay I contributed to the spectacularly lavish Taschen book marking the 75th anniversary of West ...
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